Fear the Walking Dead Season 3 discussion and spoilers.

[Morpheus 02]

Wow...no one has started a thread, and we're already near the end of episode 2?


I guess I understand why...

Episode 1 has a lame simple ending (to me).... Madison was scooping out the apparent leader's eye, and then they're like.. Oh sorry, let's all get to safety (well, offer them a car & supplies first, and then went it didn't work out).

Then episode 2, Travis dies randomly. Right after he kills a bunch of walkers...and now he's gone? Really? So they killed off the non-white branch of the family, with another non-white person on the chopping block.

And Madison as crazy Rick from the arrival of ALexandria? Umm, no. She deserves death this season. #SorryNotSorry


It's fine that we started off with the family, but couldn't we have gained more people?

Will we see the Asian-AMerican woman in the FTWD shorts last season?

Or Tobias from the first season? If he's part of the snipers, I will be interested...

Oh, and they noted -- what happened to Ophelia? Taking has promised answers soon...

 

[sojourner]

Love that the spent two episodes dragging around an unconscious Lucia. That must have been fun for her.

 

[Enterprise is Great]

I figured Travis was a goner when the news came out that Cliff Curtis had signed on to do three Avatar movies.

 

[sojourner]

LOL, at the rate those are going he could die of old age before they start filming.

 

[Morpheus 02]

Oh,and in The Talking Dead they gave a short video with the hashtag #WhereisOfelia -- if it is tied to #WhereIsTobias I am all good

 

[TREK_GOD_1]

Wow...no one has started a thread, and we're already near the end of episode 2?


I guess I understand why...

Episode 1 has a lame simple ending (to me).... Madison was scooping out the apparent leader's eye,

...and thought the guy was not a real soldier with real basic training, exhausted, non-fighter Madison should not have been much of a struggle for him at all.

and then they're like.. Oh sorry, let's all get to safety (well, offer them a car & supplies first, and then went it didn't work out).

By TWD terms, this family should be dead. In seasons 1 & 2 of TWD, we watched regular, John and Jane Q. Public characters struggle to survive--and that's with three capable people (Rick, Shane and Daryl) there to help shape them into survivors. In FTWD, the family were just typically soft city dwellers, and nothing suddenly makes you tough enough to survive and outthink people who were more suited to a life of struggle and violence. But Plot Convenience renders everyone else so inept (the easy way everyone was bitten in the hostage exchange involving Travis) that the family manages to outfight and / or outwit enemies at every turn. Moreover, with the exception of Chris, no one dies unless by some accident (Travis and his wife), and the buffoonery of others.

And Madison as crazy Rick from the arrival of ALexandria? Umm, no. She deserves death this season. #SorryNotSorry

..not to mention her "we'll take this place" line. With what skills? Numbers? Holding someone hostage again and just imagine everyone will drop their weapons? This new group is a militia, not the sheltered targets of the Alexandria Safe Zone, and there's no way the audience will buy three people (four, if you count Nick's injured girlfriend) with no skills taking any place. Why this series has to "up" the unrealistic factor is anyone's guess, but it just adds to the general "WTF?" reactions from viewers.

It's fine that we started off with the family, but couldn't we have gained more people?

More? The showrunners can barely manage the few main characters they have.

Or Tobias from the first season? If he's part of the snipers, I will be interested...

The fat kid? He needs to remain lost, otherwise, this series is going to end up like the Star Wars prequels where everyone you ever met is connected to someone else in the plot. Like some glorified block party.

 

[TREK_GOD_1]

Timely article:
'Fear the Walking Dead' Doesn't Work Because No One Gives A Sh*t About The Characters

 

[Noname Given]

I watched the two hour season premire; and cam away with a meh - been there done that already.

Also, I'm sorry, but why aren't THEY ALL dead? I mean Madison (with justification, but still) puts a spoon in the para-military leader's eye; and after all they've been through, TRUSTS that what his brother says is true (IE - we'll let you take your people, re-supply you and you can go...)
^^^
I mean come on, the fact they DIDN'T immediately shoot her is ridiculous. Even further when Lucy arrives (near death) and the same person says, "Sorry, can't let her in..." (and neither his Father, who is the camp leader; nor his brother overrule him; so Nick grabs a handgun; threatens to shoot him if they don't treat Lucy - and everyone basically says "Okay..." - and they're STILL ALIVE and all but welcomed into the community?... WTF?

Who writes this crap? Whomever it is seems burned out and should move on. If this is the level of writing we can expect; put this show out of it's misery now.

 

[Starbreaker]

Timely article:
'Fear the Walking Dead' Doesn't Work Because No One Gives A Sh*t About The Characters

I straight up hate Nick. I wish the zombies would torture him for a solid year before he died.

 

[Tom]

There are not enough eye-roll emoticons for this show. The Zombie in the wall .. lol

 

[Morpheus 02]

The charavters we DO care about are in parts unknown...well Strand, we got like 7 minutes. Salazar? Tobias? Asian American woman from the webisodes?

 

[Burning Hearts of Qo'nos]

Haven't caught the premiere yet. Accidentally spoiled myself on the character death earlier today anyway. Glad to see FTWD is still FTWD, lol. It's my favorite show that I wish I loved.

 

[TREK_GOD_1]

The charavters we DO care about are in parts unknown...well Strand, we got like 7 minutes. Salazar? Tobias? Asian American woman from the webisodes?

One of the showrunners says Salazar did not die in the fire and will make a return sometime this season. Jut as long as he's not being the self-righteous ass he was to Strand.

Speaking of Strand, he's still being sidelined on this, The Madison and Nick Show, although the teaser for next week follows up on his departure from the hotel.

 

[Jayson1]

I liked the 2 parter except when Madison did a very poor RIck parody with her bit about taking that place from the cow people or whatever name we will give them.
She only has 3 or maybe 4 people and frankly she and her group hasn't faced the trials that RIck and his group has as of yet.
I do think the cow people are going to actually start looking like a alt right type of community the more we get to know them which will play a bigger role as the season moves on.
Do ya think we have seen the last of the hotel because it still has the one lady who locked the wedding family inside and the other guy who I got to admit I have forgotten what he did on the show last season.?
I also got to admit that I am shocked we haven't seen more of Tobias. He should have or should become the Morgan style of character on the show in that we see him early on, makes a big impact on the audience, and then later becomes a main character.

Jason

 

[RJDiogenes]

Well, I was shocked to see Travis go, especially in such a weird and sudden way-- like he was written out shortly after the show returned to production. It doesn't seem like there's any way it could be a fake out. I wonder if the actor decided he wanted to quit. I'll miss him. He kinda reminded me of Judd Hirsch.

Well, the family is back together-- those still alive, anyway-- and they have found shelter in yet another stronghold community that is doing a good job of surviving the Zombie Apocalypse. I wonder how long that will last. Two episodes? Three? One-eyed Guy will screw it up for everybody somehow.

Well, at least Luciana survived. It didn't look very good there for a while.

This episode kind of reminded me of Day of the Dead in a way, with military people (or military wannabes in this case) performing experiments on Zombies. Only here they were making their own. I wonder if they learned anything that will come into play in later episodes, or if it was just to show off how evil they are. From what we've seen before, a corpse can take anywhere from a few seconds to a few hours to reanimate, but there doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason.

And, man, that scene with the rats and the Zombie pulling the guy through the wall was one of the most horrifying things they've ever done on these shows. More like Poe than the ZA.

Hopefully Strand will catch up with everybody else soon, now that he's been exiled.

 

[Noname Given]

And, man, that scene with the rats and the Zombie pulling the guy through the wall was one of the most horrifying things they've ever done on these shows. More like Poe than the ZA..

The guard that heard things in the wall and then decides to remove a vent to get a 'real' look<--- Sorry, telegraphed and hackneyed writing. I mean come on these guys were the ones going out on missions in this Zombie Apocalyplse; yet this guard is not yet smart enough to say: "Hey, something in the walls - maybe I should get help and NOT provided an opening to possible Zombies who will eat me..." That they're going with these overused tropes again and again...I thought this show was supposed to be a slightly different and 'fresh' take on the ZA in TWD - but hell, it's just recycling the same old TWD tropes and plot contrivances of the past.

 

[RJDiogenes]

I think he was prepared for a zombie or a captive human, but not a pit-and-the-pendulum tidal wave of rats. Anyway, I liked it.

 

[Starbreaker]

Well, I was shocked to see Travis go, especially in such a weird and sudden way-- like he was written out shortly after the show returned to production. It doesn't seem like there's any way it could be a fake out. I wonder if the actor decided he wanted to quit. I'll miss him. He kinda reminded me of Judd Hirsch.

He just signed on for all the Avatar sequels. $$$$

 

[Burning Hearts of Qo'nos]

Fear The Walking Dead, aka 'Maybe it gets really good this season'.

 

[Tom]

Fear The Walking Dead, aka 'Maybe it gets really good this season'.

Nah....